Bow Church is open this week Monday 23 February to Thursday noon to 4pm for visitors to view a small exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of George Lansbury’s birth. Lansbury was  a local councillor who became the MP and Leader of the Labour Party. He was a member of the church and his funeral was […]

Plans for the Olympic Park after 2012 are to be revealed at a series of roadshow and workshop events across London starting this month.  Landscape architects Latz & Partner has been appointed to lead a team to design a section of the proposed Lea River Park from above the Olympic Park to the Thames.  The […]

There were 57 walkers on this morning’s Walk London walk down the Lea Valley Walk from Tottenham Hale. There was bright sunshine. We made up for the cold by walking quite briskly. I hope we did not go too fast but everyone kept up. In warmer weather there might  be time for longer stops and […]

Today I have been checking the route for Saturday’s Walk London walk from Tottenham Hale to Three Mills. It was a wonderful sunny morning and the forecast suggests we shall enjoy another on Saturday. The new High Bridge at Spring Hill was due to be craned into place today. We shall find out if that […]

This morning there is  a reminder of the time when the Lee Valley was ‘London’s greenhouse’.   The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Bert Hazell who has died aged 101 and was the oldest living former MP. A former president of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers, he first joined the union […]

Tottenham Marshes, Leyton Marshes and the Middlesex Filterbeds are three of the 21 sites in London where sparrows are to be encouraged. The attempt to restore London’s declining sparrow population is being made by the RSPB. Working in partnership with six local authorities and organisations, a £170,000 SITA Trust funding will allow the Society to […]

Just back from a briefing for  the Walk London ‘Winter Wanders’ at the end of the month. On Saturday 31 January I shall be leading the walk from Tottenham Hale Station south along the Lea Valley Walk to Three Mills. Just after Old Ford we shall divert to see how work on the Olympic stadium […]

It is always fascinating to see which pubs on the Lea Valley Walk are mentioned in The Good Pub Guide. The 2009 edition is just out with several recommendations in addition to the ‘lucky dip’ county listings. It highlights a pub at Batford I tend to forget athough it is handy. You just need to […]

Only a handful of us managed the Enfield Lock to Tottenham Hale walk which took place this morning as part of the Walk London Autumn Ambles initiative supported by Transport for London. We met in mist at Enfield but by the time we reached the actual lock the sun was breaking through. As geese flew […]